We report a sonographic technique of skin marking of the projection of nonpalpable subcutaneous foreign bodies and masses using a paperclip. Localization and marking of the overlying skin assists in preoperative planning and further management.

A complete classification is established of Minkowski valuations on lattice polytopes that intertwine the special linear group over the integers and are translation invariant. In the contravariant case, the only such valuations are multiples of projection bodies. In the equivariant case, the only such valuations are generalized difference bodies combined with multiples of the newly defined disc...

For convex bodies K; K 0 and a translation in n-dimensional Euclidean space, let K _ K 0 be the convex hull of the union of K and K 0. Let F be a geometric functional on the space of all convex bodies. We consider special families (r) r>0 of measures on the translation group T n such that the limit lim r!1 Z Tn F (K _ K 0) dd r () exists and can be expressed in terms of K and K 0. The functiona...

Gardner and Zhang defined the notion of radial pth mean body (p > –1) in the Euclidean space Rn. In this paper, we obtain inequalities for dual quermassintegrals of the radial pth mean bodies. Further, we establish dual quermassintegrals forms of the Zhang projection inequality and the Rogers-Shephard inequality, respectively. Finally, Shephard’s problem concerning the radial pth mean bodies is...

We describe our approach to support ongoing meetings with an automated meeting assistant. The system based on the AMIDA Content Linking Device aims at providing relevant documents used in previous meetings for the ongoing meeting based on automatic speech recognition. Once the content linking device finds documents linked to a discussion about a similar subject in a previous meeting, it assumes...

Fourier analysis is a powerful tool for many problems, and especially for solving various differential equations of interest in science and engineering. In the present paper since the utilization of Zadeh's Extension principle is quite difficult in practice, we prefer the idea of level sets in order to construct a fuzzy-valued function on a closed interval via related membership function. We de...

To examine the distribution of neurogenesis in the central olfactory pathway of adult decapod crustaceans, we labeled, in vivo, six species of decapod crustaceans representing most infraorders (shrimps, spiny lobsters, clawed lobsters, crayfish, hermit crabs, true crabs) with the proliferation marker 5-bromo-2’-deoxyuridine (BrdU). In all tested species a group of small, neuron-like nuclei in t...

One of the foremost difficulties in solving Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs, either with exact or heuristic methods, is to find a feasible point. We address this issue with a new feasibility pump algorithm tailored for nonconvex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs. Feasibility pumps are algorithms that iterate between solving a continuous relaxation and a mixed-integer relaxation of the original ...